In today's booming domestic cars, when people mention domestic brands, they will no longer feel that they are not up to standard and the quality is extremely poor. However, there are still car companies, and everyone will still mention them with meaningful smiles. Zotye and Landwind are the key targets.
Everyone knows how the stems of "Baoshitai" and "Lufeng" came from, because there are several models of Zotye and Lufeng that are similar to the naked eye even from the point of view of ordinary people and non-professional designers, but after such a long time, these car companies are still alive and well, and many "similar models" can still be bought, which makes people wonder, won't they be copied by the original car companies? Why is everything all right now?
in fact, landwind X7 was once ruled that all design patents were invalid because it resembled Land Rover Aurora. Sounds like you got your punishment, doesn't it? But then, Land Rover Aurora was also ruled that the patent was invalid. The reason was that their own two-door model copied the four-door model. To put it simply, it was "copying themselves and making their patents invalid"!
it sounds ridiculous, right? some people think that landwind is a domestic car, so it has preferential treatment. Here Xiaobian simply said the key point, in fact, because the relevant patent materials should have been submitted six months when Aurora was released, but Land Rover didn't submit it until almost one year, which led to its own patent application being irregular and giving others a loophole in the future. In this matter, it is hard to say whether Landwind is too lucky or Land Rover is too unlucky. However, we can see that the patent of automobile appearance is really a troublesome thing from application to plagiarism judgment.
The above situation only exists on the premise of "judging the similarity of cars". If I copy the appearance of a car, but slightly change the data and shape, and hold on to these points, I will copy it if I don't let go, and it is difficult for the person who sues me to win. I can also "imitate" more brazenly.
Moreover, luxury car companies like Porsche, which are positioned in the high-end market, have little competition and no conflict compared with Zotye, which is positioned in the ordinary family car. If you are lucky, people will be too lazy to sue, and they will feel at ease. At the beginning, Shuanghuan "imitated" CRV, because the positioning of the car was competitive with the market, was it not chased by Honda again and again?
But not all luxury car companies are so lazy as Porsche. The above-mentioned double-ring car companies "reorganized" BMW, and BMW couldn't help it. In order to protect local brands, Germany decided that they could not list cars in Germany. Later, this car company finally came to an end because it was too blatant. Therefore, the future is still long. Zotye now has a strong sense of originality in many models. If it is still reckless, who knows if Porsche will have any operation in the future?